The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-17
But He Will Doubtless Be Kep. to the Work by
the Efforts of Balfour and Others-League
Meetings Announced for Sunday Next.
Queen Victoria Formally Prorogues Eng
lands Parliament Until November.
Collision on an English Railway Results in the
Killing of Twenty-Four and Wounding
of Seventy Persons-Notes by Cable.
IRISH AFFAIRS.

Lord Salisbury Said To Be Little Weak
About Enforcement of the Crimes Law.
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LONDON, Sept. 16.-It is becoming known that
Lord Salisbury is wavering from the policy
adopted toward Ireland by the Ministry, and
that he greatly fears the results which are to
follow upon the execution of the measures
passed by the session of Parliament just closed.
His unconscionable confreres in the Ministry,
especially the Irish Secretary, Mr.. Balfour, are
doing all they can TO bolster up their chief and
to persuade him that the present course, while
excessively disagreeable, is none the less duty.
The passage in the Queens speech, read at
the prorogation of Parliament, which
says ''the Queen trusts that the remedies pro-
vided for Ireland will gradually effect restora-
ton order" indicates that little hope is felt for
the Tory cause, even in the highest quarters. IL
anything further than this needed to point
out the hopelessness of expecting to reconcile
Englan to the governments treatment OF Ire
land. it would be the very disaffection in the
Tory ranks themselves. Frequent murrnurings
have been heard and have been quietly hushed
but the threatened resignation of Mr.. William
Evelyn. a strong Conservative member for
Deptford. gives the latest indication of the
drift of political matters
The executive branch of the National League
has arranged for meetings to be held on Sunday
at Roscommon Bandon. Newton and Kilmac-
thomas. Members Of Parliament Sheepey,
Brunner. Hooper. Timothy Healy and Dillon
will address the meetings Mr. Balfour held
conference at Dublin Castle to-day with Lord
Ashbourne and General Butler and it is expected
the meetings will be proclaimed.
Facts About the Mitcheistown Shooting
NEW YORK, Sept 16.-A London cable to the
Mail and Express says: Only two witnesses
have been examined with regard to the Mitch
ellstown murders. and the evidence brought out
is of the most disgraceful kind, as revelation
of the part played by the government and the
police in this affair Constable Doherty, under
cross-examinaton by Mr. Harrington, admitted
that he tried to force party OF police through
the thickest part of the crowd, instead of taking
them round by the outskirts of the throne SIM
ply because the route he took the nearest
Fay to ,the platform. This wanton piece of
malice. which the direct cause of
the disturbance he described with
an air that suggested brutal disregard
Of the peoples rights and lives. When he
was asked about blank cartridges he gave the
cartridges They would be of very little use in
this country" He questioned concerning
the statement made and urged by Mr.. Balfour
in the House of Commons, in justification of
the criminal attack by the police, that the door
of the barracks had been broken in oy the
crowd before the firing began The constable
was reluctant to speak clearly this point, but
being closely pressed by his questioner that
he had escape from direct reply, he
finally obliged to admit that there had been
previous attack, and that the murder of the
men by the police not palliated by the
smallest circumstance that might have been held
to excuse the shooting. The effect of the
animation has been to put the whole matter in
the worst possible light for the government.
At the coroners' inquest on Friday it
was shown that Lonergan was killed by bullet
in the brain and that Shennick and Casey died
from the effects of buckshot In the BRAIN The
government reporter whose presence at the
meeting was the prime cause of the affray,
deposed that when he and his police escort
passed the line of horsemen fringine the crowd,
shouts came from the platform to the people to
close up. and the crowd thereupon began an at
tack on the police The reporter being in civil
ian dress escaped unhurt. The story that the
people tried to kill him true. He saw
stones thrown at the barracks door to which
constable Leahy staggered. his face and clothes
stained with blood and mud